Yet the device which makes the main space so ethereal is the west wall, 30m square, and designed to transmute day and sunlight into the luminous blue which transfuses the whole place.

The prehistory of this form is obscure, and Stesichorus seems to have no successors: perhaps this was a unique attempt to transfuse epic material into a new medium.

The technique transfused her ego with indirect suggestions of being elegant, refined, and of possessing discriminating taste, sophistication, prestige, and elitist status.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'cause to pass from one person to another'): from Latintransfus- 'poured from one container to another', from the verb transfundere, from trans- 'across' + fundere 'pour'.